Relevant Linguistics : An Introduction to the Structure and Use of English for Teachers,9781575862187

$ We buy this book back!

Relevant Linguistics : An Introduction to the Structure and Use of English for Teachers

by Justice

Edition:

2nd

ISBN13:

9781575862187

ISBN10:

1575862182

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

11/30/2004

Publisher(s):

Univ of Chicago Pr

Other versions by this Author

List Price: ~~$37.33~~

Rent Textbook

(Recommended)

Term

Due

Price

Short Term

Aug 2

$10.34

Semester

Sep 26

$14.93

Quarter

Aug 17

$13.07

$10.34

Buy Used Textbook

In Stock Usually Ships in 24 Hours.

$26.13

Buy New Textbook

Usually Ships in 3-5 Business Days

$36.40

eTextbook

We're Sorry
Not Available

More New and Used
from Private Sellers

Starting at $18.30

Questions About This Book?

Why should I rent this book?

Renting is easy, fast, and cheap! Renting from eCampus.com can save you hundreds of dollars compared to the cost of new or used books each semester. At the end of the semester, simply ship the book back to us with a free UPS shipping label! No need to worry about selling it back.

How do rental returns work?

Returning books is as easy as possible. As your rental due date approaches, we will email you several courtesy reminders. When you are ready to return, you can print a free UPS shipping label from our website at any time. Then, just return the book to your UPS driver or any staffed UPS location. You can even use the same box we shipped it in!

What version or edition is this?

This is the 2nd edition with a publication date of 11/30/2004.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any CDs, lab manuals, study guides, etc.
The Used copy of this book is not guaranteed to inclue any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included.
The Rental copy of this book is not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. You may receive a brand new copy, but typically, only the book itself.

Summary

This revised and expanded edition of Paul W. Justice's popular text provides a straightforward, accessible introduction to the basics of linguistics for education students and all non-linguistics majors, covering the essentials of phonetics, phonology, morphology, morpho-phonology, and syntax. While this overview is accessible to any student, Justice's text will be of particular use in teacher training programs, many of which now expose trainees to these topics in order to cope with rising linguistic diversity in classrooms.Each chapter of Relevant Linguistics leads students through descriptive analysis, helps them grasp linguistic concepts, and provides them with the reference materials necessary for their own teaching. This second edition contains more exercises as well as expanded and clarified explanations of the issues discussed in the first edition. Also included are more references to areas such as the history of English and semantics.

Author Biography

Paul W. Justice is a lecturer at San Diego State University and an instructor at Grossmont College.

To the Student

xiii

To the Instructor

xiv

Acknowledgments

xvi

What is Linguistics?

(12)

What Do Linguists Do?

(1)

What is the Nature of Language?

(1)

Focus on Expressions: The Nature of Words

(2)

The Nature of Grammar Rules: Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism

(4)

Prescriptivism

(1)

Descriptivism

(2)

Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism over Time

(1)

Descriptivism and the Language Arts Curriculum

(1)

Narrowing the Focus: English and other Languages

(1)

Tying It All Together: The Relevance of Linguistics

(1)

Summary

(1)

Phonetics: The Sounds of English

(32)

Phonetics: Its Relevance to Classroom Teachers

(1)

Spelling and Sounds in English

(1)

The Smallest Units of Language: Phonemes

(1)

The Consonants of English

(6)

Describing the Features of Consonants: Place of Articulation

(2)

Describing the Features of Consonants: Manner of Articulation

(3)

Describing the Features of Consonants: Voicing

(1)

The Vowels of English

(6)

Describing English Vowels: Tongue Height

(1)

Describing English Vowels: Frontness

(2)

Describing English Vowels: Tenseness

(1)

A Final Feature of Vowels: Roundedness

(1)

Difficult to Describe Vowels: Diphthongs

(2)

Some Important Points about Vowels

(2)

Vowels as Approximations

(1)

The Importance of Schwa in English

(2)

Second Language Issues: Phonemic Inventories

(1)

Summary

(1)

Exercises

(13)

Phonetics Practice: Description of Phonemes

(1)

Phonetics Practice: Phoneme Analogies

(1)

Transcription Exercises

(3)

Transcription Jokes

(3)

Strange but True Transcriptions

(1)

More Transcription Jokes

(1)

The Connection between English Spelling and Sounds

(3)

Phonology: The Sound System of English

(46)

Levels of Representation

(1)

Phonemes and Allophones

(1)

The Systematicity of Phonology

(1)

Determining the Relationship Between Sounds

(2)

Contrastive Sounds

(1)

Non-Contrastive Sounds

(1)

Environment and Contrast

(1)

Phonological Rules

(3)

Determining the Basic Form of a Phoneme

(1)

Rule Types

(1)

Modeling Phonological Analysis with Four Rules of English

(9)

Vowel Nasalization in English

(2)

Vowel Lengthening in English

(2)

Aspiration in English

(2)

Flapping in American English

(3)

Phonological Analysis Resource

(1)

Goals of the Analysis

(1)

Steps of the Analysis

(1)

English Spelling Revisited

(2)

English Phonotactics

(5)

The Syllable

(1)

Phonotactic Constraints on Syllable Structure

(4)

Syllable Stress in English

(2)

Summary

(1)

Exercises

(17)

Minimal Pair Practice

(1)

Contrastive and Non-Contrastive Sounds

(1)

Practice with Natural Classes

(1)

Determining Distribution

(2)

English Phonology Practice

(1)

English Phonology Problems

(3)

Spanish Phonology Problems

(2)

Additional Phonology Problems

(4)

Practice with Phonotactics

(2)

Morphology: English Word Structure and Formation

(38)

Word Classes

(1)

Classification Criteria

(1)

Major Classes

(9)

Nouns

(2)

Verbs

(3)

Adjectives

(2)

Adverbs

(2)

Minor Classes

101

(2)

Pronouns

101

(2)

The Structure of Words

103

(1)

The Morpheme

103

(1)

Classification of Morphemes

104

(4)

Free Morphemes vs. Bound Morphemes

104

(1)

Lexical Morphemes vs. Grammatical Morphemes

104

(1)

Root Morphemes vs. Affix Morphemes

105

(1)

Inflectional Affixes vs. Derivational Affixes

106

(2)

Challenges in Identifying Morphemes: Form vs. Meaning

108

(1)

The Hierarchical Structure of Words

109

(2)

Word Creation in English

111

(6)

Affixing

112

(1)

Functional Shift

112

(1)

Semantic Shift

113

(1)

Compounding

113

(1)

Blending

114

(1)

Borrowing

114

(1)

Acronyming

115

(1)

Root Creation

116

(1)

Summary

117

(1)

Exercises

118

(11)

Word Class Exercise

118

(2)

Morpheme Practice

120

(1)

Creative Affixing

121

(2)

Morphology Trees Exercise

123

(1)

Derivational Morpheme Exercise (three pages)

124

(3)

Bound Roots in English

127

(1)

English Word Creation Practice

128

(1)

Morphophonology: Where Morphology Meets Phonology

129

(24)

Key Concepts and Terms of Morphophonology

129

(1)

Morphophonological Analysis

130

(5)

Root Allomorphy

130

(2)

Allomorphic Variation with Affixes

132

(2)

Morphophonological Analysis Resource

134

(1)

Some Rules of English Morphophonology

135

(7)

The Past Tense in English

136

(3)

The Plural in English

139

(3)

Relevance at Three Levels

142

(1)

Spelling and Morphophonology in English

142

(1)

Summary

143

(1)

Exercises

144

(9)

English Morphophonology Practice

144

(1)

English Morphophonology Problems

145

(3)

Additional English Morphophonology Problem

148

(1)

Foreign Language Morphophonology Problems

149

(4)

Syntax: English Phrase and Sentence Structure

153

(92)

More Word Classes

153

(1)

Minor Classes

154

(5)

Determiners

154

(1)

Prepositions

155

(1)

Auxiliaries

155

(2)

Conjunctions

157

(2)

Major Classes

159

(7)

Nouns

159

(2)

Verbs

161

(1)

Adjectives

162

(2)

Adverbs

164

(1)

Pronouns

165

(1)

Sentence Types

166

(7)

Simple Sentences

166

(1)

Coordinate sentences

166

(1)

Complex Sentences

167

(1)

Complex-Coordinate Sentences

167

(1)

Coordination vs. Subordination

168

(2)

Different Kinds of Subordination

170

(3)

The Purpose of Studying Syntax

173

(1)

Constituents

174

(11)

Basic Constituents

174

(1)

The Importance of Hierarchical Constituent Structure

175

(1)

Determining and Representing Hierarchical Structure

176

(2)

Grammatical Relations

178

(1)

Constituent Structure of Complex and Coordinate Sentences

179

(1)

Diagramming Ambiguous Sentences

180

(2)

Constituent Tests

182

(3)

Phrase Structure

185

(5)

Subcategorization

190

(2)

Subcategories of English Verbs

192

(6)

Transitive Verbs

192

(1)

Intransitive Verbs

193

(1)

Complex Transitive Verbs

194

(1)

Linking Verbs

195

(1)

Linking Verbs Revisited

196

(2)

A Final Note about Subcategorization

198

(1)

Transformations

198

(3)

Deep and Surface Structures

200

(1)

Transformational Rules

201

(8)

Sub-Aux Inversion

201

(2)

``Wh-'' Movement

203

(2)

``Wh-'' Movement of Relative Pronouns

205

(4)

A Final Note Regarding Transformations

209

(1)

Tying It All Together

209

(1)

Summary

210

(1)

Exercises

211

(34)

Word Class Exercise

211

(1)

Sentence Type Exercise

212

(1)

Word Class/Sentence Type Exercise

213

(2)

Passivization

215

(2)

Beginning Syntax Trees

217

(2)

Advanced Syntax Trees

219

(7)

Grammatical Relation Practice

226

(1)

Phrase Structure Practice

227

(1)

Even More Syntax Tree Practice

228

(4)

Subcategorization Exercise

232

(3)

Explaining Ungrammaticality

235

(2)

Transformation Exercise

237

(4)

That Word

241

(4)

Language Variation: English Dialects

245

(56)

The Language vs. Dialect Distinction

245

(2)

Dimensions of Language Variation

247

(1)

Absolutes vs. Relatives

248

(2)

More Relatives: Correctness vs. Appropriateness

250

(1)

Levels of Language Variation

251

(4)

The Case of African-American English

255

(7)

Phonological Features of AAE

256

(1)

Morphological Features of AAE

257

(2)

Syntactic Features of AAE

259

(2)

An Additional Feature of AAE

261

(1)

Implications of Dialect Study

262

(1)

Expert Voices on Dialect Issues

263

(3)

Summary

266

(1)

Exercises

267

(4)

Classifying Variation

267

(1)

Researching Language Variation

268

(1)

Practice with AAE

269

(1)

Discussion Exercise

270

(1)

Appendix 1: Introductory Matters

271

(4)

Language Challenges: Ambiguity

271

(2)

The History of English

273

(1)

Illustrating Language History: Cognates

273

(1)

The Language Tree for English

274

(1)

Appendix 2: Phonetics

275

(2)

Distinctive Features

275

(1)

Relevant Linguistics : An Introduction to the Structure and Use of English for Teachers

9781575862187

Rent Textbook

Buy Used Textbook

Buy New Textbook

eTextbook

Questions About This Book?

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents